This weekend I’ve been having fun moving some recording off the full hard drive of my Topfield Masterpiece and trying to convert them into the formats I want. Below is what I’ve learnt in the process, this is only going to be useful to those using Windows. Read the rest of this entry »
February 14th, 2010
November 25th, 2009
Need to generate a pdf programmatically in dot net? You could purchase an HTML to PDF converter and worry about getting the page to format nicely for paper, or you could use the freely available ReportViewer control from Microsoft.
Microsoft offers SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) with SQL Server 2005 and later editions to generate and publish reports using the Report Definition Language (RDL), as an alternative to Crystal Reports. SSRS requires a Report Server to publish reports to so they can be useful, however they also offer a ASP.Net or Windows Forms component called the ReportViewer which we can use in our code without the need for any SQL database to generate reports, and these reports can be saved as Excel files, PDF’s or images. Read the rest of this entry »
